FILE - Phil Donahue hosts his television show in New York on Jan. 27, 1993. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched a television genre that made household names of Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, has died. He was 88.The Associated PressPhil Donahue, seen hosting his eponymous TV talk show in New York in 1993, has died at the age of 88. Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched a television genre that made household names of Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, has died.
Donahue was in the first graduating class of St. Edward High School, a Catholic all-boys preparatory school in Lakewood, in 1953 and graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in business administration in 1957. He later rebelled against and left the church, though he poignantly recalled in his book that "a little piece" of his faith would always be with him.
Donahue helped pioneer the idea of tackling contemporary and controversial topics on daytime TV. He's seen here, at centre, with several other prominent U.S. TV personalities following the taping of a 25th anniversary special of his show in 1992: from left, Jenny Jones, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Faith Daniels, Larry King, Donahue, Connie Chung, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer and Montel Williams.
"It may have been a full three years before any of us began to understand that our program was something special," Donahue wrote.
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